In the Shadow of Asylum Decision-Making: The Knowledge Politics of Country-of-Origin Information
In the Shadow of Asylum Decision-Making: The Knowledge Politics of Country-of-Origin Information
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庇护决策的阴影下：原籍国信息的知识政治
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
M. Goede
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作者：
Jasper van der Kist;Huub Dijstelbloem;M. Goede
原籍国信息在欧洲庇护制度中占据了中心地位，是国家关于难民人口庇护地位的决定的基础。所有欧洲国家都提供这类信息，专门的原产国信息单位也越来越普遍。本文分析了信息来源国的知识政治，重点讨论了知识与决策的关系。我们之所以对这类知识感兴趣，正是因为它处于社会科学方法论和政策决策之间的尴尬位置，并被注入了一种“脉冲规范性”。我们区分了来源国信息生产的三个阶段：第一阶段是调查阶段，将外国土地还原为稳定的和移动的形式，以便作为研究单位进行研究：第二阶段是信息生产的一致性，依靠标准化的仪器和实用技能;第三，整合阶段，这涉及将研究单位内部构建的国家信息重新纳入行政和监管领域。本文的最后一部分探讨了有关原籍国的复杂而脆弱的信息如何被用作庇护决策的有效依据。
Country-of-origin information has secured a central place in European asylum systems, underpinning state decisions on the asylum status of refugee populations. All European states produce this type of information, and dedicated country-of-origin information units are increasingly common. This article analyzes the knowledge politics of country-of-origin information, with a focus on the relation between knowledge and decision. We are interested in this type of knowledge precisely because it is uneasily positioned in-between social scientific methodology and policy decision-making and is infused with a “pulsional normativity.” We distinguish three phases of country-of-origin information production: first, a phase of investigation, where foreign lands are reduced to stable and mobile forms so that they can be studied as research units; second, the concordance of information production, relying on standardized instruments and practical skill; and third, the consolidation phase, which involves the return of country information constructed inside research units back into the administrative and regulatory world. The final section of the article examines how complex and frail information about countries of origin becomes deployed as valid grounds for asylum decision-making.